They're dropping like flies in the anti-anthem National Football
League as Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers went down with a
broken
collarbone in the Green Bay game. That adds to the
season-ending injuries to NFL stars Odell Beckham Jr. and J.J. Watt
last week. Rodgers could miss the rest of the year and his
team is now scrambling to find a decent replacement.

This year, only five active NFL players are privileged enough to
have their own personal calendars produced:
Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers,
Russell Wilson,
Odell Beckham Jr., and
J.J. Watt. Andrew Luck's
calendar was available last year, but was not renewed for 2018,
which is not surprising as he was injured before the season even
started and has not yet suited up. Hopefully this is not a
curse, but only Brady of the
Patriots and Wilson
of the Seahawks have
not been hurt this year.

These guys are the face of the National Football League. Sure,
you could add another dozen to the list, but the fact is that the
marquee players are getting injured. Ratings are already bad
enough with the anti-American kneel-down (seriously, stand for the
flag and show some respect), and this will just add to the ratings
decline. We're not even half-way through the season, so it
could get worse before it gets better. In addition, the major
market teams in New York are not doing well and the experiment in
Los Angeles with the
Chargers is looking like an unmitigated disaster.

I would expect ratings to continue to decline as major injuries and
the national anthem issue continue to take their toll. It's
bad enough that they league refuses to adequately address the issue
of domestic violence; now they have these additional concerns, which
just compounds their problems.
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